Key-ring clip



J. L. SOMMER.

' KEY RING CLIP. APPLICATION FILED JULY 23. 192:.

1,392,715. Patented Oct. 4, 1921.

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A TTORNE VS STAT J' OHN L. SOMMER, F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR '10 J". L. SOMMER MANUFAC- TURING 00., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

KEY-RING- CLIP.

1,392,715. Specification of Letters Patent Patented Oct. 4, 1921. Application filed July 23, 1921. Serial No. 486,938.

To all'whomz'tmay concern: afford an easy starting of the key-ring in Be it known that I, JOHN L. SoMMER, a applying it.

citizen of the United States, and a resident It will be understood that the ogee-curved of Newark, in the county of Essex and State middle portion 3, 4 of the body portion of of New Jersey, have invented new and usethe clip cooperates with both of the simiful Improvements in Key-Ring Clips, of larly curved ends of the spring tongues 6,

which the following is a specification. 7, its opposite sides forming seats against This invention relates to that class of which they both fit closely. Obviously the clips which are commonly used for securing resistance to the passage of a key-ring 14 a bunch of keys to ones belt, at the hip, and through either of the sinuous closures thus the objects of the invention are to secure an formed is considerable, and there is no danimproved construction of such clips and one ger of the keys being inadvertently lost; at

which shall hold the key ring more securely; the same time the construction is compact,

to thus prevent the keys from escaping and and it can readily be applied to a belt 15,

being lost; to obtain for this purpose an as shown. 5

engagement of the spring tongues with the While I prefer to employ the ogee bends body portion which the key-ring is unlikely which I have shown and described, it is to pass; to still have the body portion fit within the spirit and scope of my invention and cooperate with both spring tongues; to use other forms of bends, so long as they to enable the clip to be easily operated, and are such that the middle body portion 00- to obtain other results and advantages as operates with both of the spring tongues in may be brought out by the following dethe manner described, that is to say, its bendscription. ing to form a sinuous passage with one of Referring to the accompanying drawings, the spring tongues forms also a similar pasin which like numerals of reference indicate sage with the other member.

the same parts throughout the several views, Having thus described the invention, what Figure 1 is a perspective view of my im- I claim is:

prov d lip in use; 1. A key ring clip having a body portion Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same, and and spring tongues returned from the ends Fig. 3 is a front or face view. of the body portion on opposite sides thereof In said drawings, the body portion of my and extending each past the free end of the improved clip is shown having end portions other, the three overlapping portions being 1, 2 which are preferably flat and straight, bent as a unit to form tortuous passageways.

lying in substantially parallel planes as 2. A key ring clip having a body portion shown in Fig. 2. These end portions are and spring tongues returned from the ends connected by an ogee-curved middle portion, of the body portion on opposite sides thereof 3, 4, and at their outer ends the strip-like and extending each past the free end of the material of which the clip is formed is bent other, the three overlapping portions being or looped as at 5, 5 and returned at the side bent sinuously as a unit to form tortuous of each end portion away from the plane of passageways.

the other end portion, forming spring 3. A key ring clip having a body portion tongues 6, 7. These tongues lie at their and spring tongues returned from the ends ends against the opposite sides of the ogeeof the body portion on opposite sides thereof curved middle portion 3, 4, of the body and extending each past the free end of the part, and are curved similar thereto so as to other, the three overlapping portions being fit against the same, as shown at 8, 9, and 10, bent as a unit to form similar tortuous en- 11 in the drawing. The extremities, 12 and trances beneath the two tongues.

13, of the spring tongues project or curve 4. A key ring clip having a body portion away from the adjacent end portions 1 and and spring tongues returned from the ends 2 of the body portion of the clip, so as to of the body portion on opposite sides thereof 0 and extending each past the free end of the and spring tongues returned from the ends other, the three overlapping portions being of the body portion on opposite sides thereof bent first in one direction and then in the and extending each past the free end of the 1 other so as to bring the end portions of the other, the three overlapping portions being 5 body portion in substantially parallel spaced bent on an 'ogee curve at the middle of the planes. length thereof. I

p 5. A key ring clip having a body portion JL. SOMMER 

